Kenneth H. Dahlberg

Kenneth Harry Dahlberg (30 June 1917-4 October 2011) was an American businessman and highly decorated World War II fighter ace. He served as the Midwest Chairman of Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, and he was found to have been the signer of a $25,000 check found in the account of Bernard Barker, one of the Watergate scandal burglars. Martin Dardis' revelation of this led to Nixon's campaign being linked to the scandal, and Nixon was forced to resign in 1974.

Biography
Kenneth Harry Dahlberg was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on 30 June 1917, and he began working in the hotel business in 1935. Dahlberg rose from working as a dishwasher to becoming the food and beverage manager for a hotel chain, and he was drafted into the US Army after World War II broke out in 1941. One of his instructors in the US Air Force was Barry Goldwater, and he was rescued by AA gunner Martin Dardis after his plane was shot down in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944-1945. On 14 February 1945, Dahlberg was shot down over Bitburg, Germany, and he was held as a POW for the last three years of the war.

After the war, Dahlberg worked for Telex, a company that made hearing aids. In 1948, he founded his own electronics company, and he became very wealthy. Dahlberg also became involved in Republican Party politics, serving as the Midwest finance chairman for the Committee to Re-elect the President during President Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign. Dahlberg's name was found on a check deposited in the bank account of Bernard Barker, one of the burglars in the Watergate scandal, and Dardis informed The Washington Post journalist Carl Bernstein about it. Bernstein's co-worker Bob Woodward called Dahlberg, who revealed that he had given the check to finance manager Clark MacGregor. Dahlberg's information helped in bringing Nixon down in 1974. Dahlberg was never charged with any wrongdoing, and he died in 2011.